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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Day late...and too many photos to print...will just have to pick out the best.First up...what's on my needles, lest I get too much away from knitting...I am deep into a free form project, and now that I am halfway through, I must say it is so addicting!Hope to have photos up on that one by Friday.

First up: went to the Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Showin Providence, Rhode Island this weekend...this was my first visitto this particular show...and I would classify it as a Keeper!This year's theme was Fairy Tales, and they all seemed to be well represented and the whole show was most enchanting...My major purchase was a large bunch of pussy willows for only $4.and we all got free flower seeds, mine were "forget me not."

A few more photos of more commonly known fairy tales: Hansel & Gretel, the 3 Little Pigs, and even the Big Bad Wolf in Granny's bed, which is depicted here as a "Flower Bed."

And a few final lovely flower scenes...

I went with a girlfriend and we squeezed in time for just one yarn store experience in Rhode Island...we chose the Yarn Outlet in Pawtucket, R.I.as it was actually on our way. We were both pleased, and went home with several new purchases...they have loads of books, most of whichwere on sale...and lots of lovely sale yarn also.my favorite purchase was a skein of filatura di crosa party yarn, which looks exactly like green grass knit up...Easter is coming folks....need that green grass...for my knitted eggs and knitted bunnies..........

Finally, I am currently back to knitting socks, found an ankle sock pattern that I really love, and knits up really quick too, just grabbed some crazy Easterish colored yarn from my stash...and now I have some lovely socks for the spring. Worsted Ankle Sock Pattern can be found here:http://www.kraemeryarns.com/patterns/pdfs/ttw_anklesocks.pdf

then I went into my new Kristin Nicholas book, Kristin Knits and made some of her wild colored socks with her signature embroidery.